Until we come to terms with tobacco products, these debates will continue.

Imagine a country with NO cigarettes, and some guy discovers tobacco and what happens when it is cured & dried and rolled up in a piece of paper and set alight...and the smoke inhaled. Then he decides to market it. What do you suppose our modern Drug agencies would say after testing? They would never allow this stuff to be marketed.

Tobacco is still with us and needing all these awkward attempts at laws because 1)many of the regulators are smokers, 2)There is so much money involved in sales & taxes that banning tobacco would hurt the economy, and 3)No one wants to contemplate the panic and behavior of many of the addicts if deprived of their 'fix'.
Yes, it IS better today since smoking is banned in many public places, but I still sometimes get hit with a butt tossed from a car and we still get fires caused by careless smoking.

I think I'd be willing to take my chances with nervous, cranky folks who had their cigarettes taken away.
   What would I do when tobacco was grown secretly and smuggled...like pot? I really don't know...I just wish...

I, also, lived in a house...and rode cars...where my parents smoked, and *I* hated it. We were not rich, and I could do the math about what my parents could have bought with cigarette money.